· Community service committee
o Hot Chocolate Run
§ meeting in front of Josh’s house @ 9:15, Anna will be driving through Amherst
§ Wearing “Masters in Relevance” t-shirts
o Idea: associate ourselves with a community org and build a relationship, possibly every Saturday but
§ Possibilities: Amherst Nursing Home, Center for New Americans
§ Plan: Send out email describing orgs
§ Important to keep ears open for more suggestions
o Possible spring break service trips: Habitat for Humanity?
· PAGC is an official group!
o Have a bank account
o Creating a PAGC space on bulletin board
· Social Committee
o Friday at roller skating
o Ice skating for next year?
· Blog: unblocked, everyone will be using full names
· Event committee
o Marco Fantini: went great, CPPA covered all expenses
o Idea is that people will get excited about certain issues, will engage them to come and speak
o Contingency grants available from GSS to bring speakers here
o Tricia wants to bring in someone to talk about the repression of science in the Bush Administration; has contacts at National Renewable Energy Lab
o Minako suggests we invite Amherst town manager; he has a policy degree from SUNY Albany
· Fundraising Committee
o Interest in coffee cups and sweatshirts
o Promulgate design ideas (using a forum?) with a set deadline (possibly at the end of winter break?), decide via SurveyMonkey
o Megan prefers to spend fundraising money immediately and not have a standing budget
· Treasurer Report (Megan)
o Will be setting up bank account
o Idea: put a box on swag order form to allow people to donate extra to PAGC
· Professional Development and Networking Committee
o CPPA student presentation series in the spring: Megan would like to take the lead
§ Should try to make sure that at least one faculty member is present, preferably those who have substantive knowledge of the subject, then ask for feedback for speaker via a form
§ Opportunity to use as a growth experience; engaging communication graduate student to possibly do an independent study and come give feedback?
§ Anna: would love weekend seminar about presentations
§ Planning on sending out email during January term asking for speakers, then following up with individual emails
§ Hopefully try to arrange first presentation for February
o Student/Alum mentoring
§ Has been difficult in the past
§ Tricia will meet with Satu to discuss organizational details; intention is to use Satu as a resource/facilitator to help link up current and former students
§ Possibly establish evaluative mechanism or form so that it can be counted as credit towards our professional development class
· New Secretary election
o Anna nominates: Josh Geyer (Tricia seconds)
o Confirmed by acclimation
· GSS
o Officers will share GSS delegate responsibilities amongst themselves
